YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN OUR ADORATION COMMUNITY

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 FOR SILENT CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

THURDAY EVENINGS - ONCE A MONTH

7:30-8:00 P.M. E.T. 

September 10 February 11
October 8 March 11
November 12 April 8
December 10 May 13
January 14 June 10

 

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Please always JOIN your Zoom by the link on our Upper Room Home page.

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Visit Our Lady's Chapel for PERPETUAL ADORATION FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 

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Click here to read Suggestions for Contemplative Prayer for Beginners 

by Rosemary O'Toole, CSJ


 

Click here to read article on CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

by Rosemary O'Toole, CSJ 


 

Books that may be helpful on Contemplation

 

 Contemplation and Dark Night of the Soul, by Rosemary O'Toole. (80 pages)

Amazon Paperback $6.55 CAD      Amazon Kindle $3.76 CAD

 

Desire, Darkness and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse.

Engaging the Thought of Constance Fitzgerald, OCD

(all seven of her major essays included)

Amazon Paperback $56.17 CAD

 


 

“Contemplation is silent, imageless and loving communion with God

that transcends all discursiveness.

It is the secret, peaceful and loving infusion of God which,

if the soul allows it to happen,

enflames it in the spirit of love.”

John of the Cross, a Carmelite mystic of 16th Century Spain